Hi Marco, thanks for your reply. On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 00:14, Marco Gerards wrote: > > After installing the Hurd with crosshurd, setting up GRUB with the > > sophisticated well known parameters and fixing the too-much-memory > > problem (uppermem 786432), I came across the following output (not > > verbatim, but nearly): > > What happened when you did not add this uppermem line? The spontaneous reboot someone reported earlier. > Is it possible for you to remove some memory to test what happens > in that case? Yes, and it works. While experimenting, I also tried "uppermem 524288", and now I can even use (i.e. install) my full memory (though limited under the Hurd). > To me it looks like a really weird problem. Only libstore/nbd.c:417 > in the sourcecode reports this error without reporting more error, > AFAIK. I don't know a thing about this store and I didn't look into > it in detail. It seems that it's the memory problem or something caused by it. > Perhaps you menu.lst (the relevant part of it) might be useful. title GNU/Hurd (hd1,4) root (hd1,4) uppermem 524288 kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd1s5 -s module /hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} --host-priv-port=${host-port} --device-master-port=${device-port} --exec-server-task=${exec-task} -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume) module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create) > > Besides, both crosshurd installation and > > http://people.debian.org/~rmh/gnu/gnu.tar.bz2 results in the "hurd" > > package being from 2002. Is that correct? > > You can better use: > ftp://ftp.gnuab.org/pub/gnu/gnu.tar.bz2 OK, that seems to work better with ./native-install etc. (What is the right place to report the out-of-date Debian GNU/Hurd Installation HOWTO on www.debian.org? The www.debian.org pseudo-package? There are some command line examples from Neal's document where only the first line is taken over.) I observed that ftp://ftp.gnuab.org/pub/gnu/gnu.tar.bz2 is much smaller than http://people.debian.org/~rmh/gnu/gnu.tar.bz2 (just about the half). E.g. /usr/share/doc/ package directories are missing, so I couldn't check easily the changelog and date. > > And: Is there by chance someone running the network adapter (Broadcom > > BCM5700) of the above board with the Hurd? (The link in the entry "What > > kind of hardware is supported?" in the FAQ on gnu.org is not available.) > > I can't find it in the README-Drivers file of GNUMach 1.3. Which chip > is on this board? Perhaps it is supported by GNUMach 1.9 (which has > other drivers). It's the driver in the source package bcm5700-source, a Linux kernel module, not even integrated into Linux itself. The device calls itself "Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702". > If it is not supported you can use linux drivers (linux 2.0 drivers > for gnumach 1.3 or linux 2.2 drivers for gnumach 1.9). Which version is included in ftp://ftp.gnuab.org/pub/gnu/gnu.tar.bz2? Besides, I was thinking that device drivers are _not_ linked into a microkernel (?). Unfortunately, I encountered some further errors: On boot, I always get ===================================================================== [...] start /hurd/ext2fs.static: hd14: bad access: block=28, count=2, blockend=30, nr_sects2 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:44, sector28 [...] ===================================================================== On the second run (after reboot) of ./native-install, it says: ===================================================================== [...] I just make sure that /libexec/runsystem is properly updated. WHOA! We're in deep trouble. The Hurd package did not update the link in /libexec/runsystem. For now, I am making a link manually, but please report this. The last step is to create /etc/fstab chown: `root': invalid user [...] ===================================================================== Indeed, on "ls -l", it reports just the uids, not the names. Trying "adduser", the system responded that perl is not available. Another one: ===================================================================== sh-2.05b# nano I can't find my home directory! Wah! Press return to continue starting nano <return> Error opening terminal: unknown sh-2.05b# ===================================================================== Sometimes, nano starts up (also with the above output), sometimes not. I didn't figure out exactly when. Maybe all this is related somehow. Thanks in advance. bye, Roland
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